Norway’s prime minister says the Israeli army’s response to the deadly Hamas attack that killed 1,400 people and saw over 230 abducted by terrorists has been disproportionate, and denounces a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza.

  • @Maggoty
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    111 months ago

    It still smells like a massive undercount. If you gave me that number for a Western country it would be ridiculous too. It’s just not a realistic number.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      It seems more like if the number had agreed with your assertion instead of refuted it you’d have accepted the source as generally accurate.

      • @Maggoty
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        111 months ago

        I can’t offer you any proof because this is the Internet but I just really don’t like bad data. It gets used for rhetoric all the time and it’s exhausting to track down. In this case though, for reference, a normal deaths per 100k in a well supplied, peaceful, western country, is 800 to 900. To put forward these numbers in a poorly supplied middle eastern warzone is ridiculous.

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          but I just really don’t like bad data. It gets used for rhetoric all the time and it’s exhausting to track down

          Okay, but you’re using no data for bad rhetoric.

          • @Maggoty
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            111 months ago

            There’s plenty of corroboration for the treatment I speak of in news articles.

      • @Maggoty
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        111 months ago

        Nope. Sometimes we just don’t have good data.